Sohrab Ahmari
Sohrab Ahmari | |
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Ahmari in 2023 | |
| Born | February 1, 1985 |
| Education | Utah State University University of Washington (BA) Northeastern University (JD) |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, editor, and writer |
| Employer(s) | Compact (2021–present) The New York Post (2018–2021) Commentary (2017–2018) The Wall Street Journal (2012–2017) |
| Spouse |
Ting Li (m. 2014) |
| Children | 2 |
Sohrab Ahmari (Persian: سهراب احمری, romanized: Sohrāb Aḥmarī; born February 1, 1985) is an Iranian-born American columnist, editor, and author of nonfiction books. He is a founding editor of the online magazine Compact. He is a contributing editor of The Catholic Herald, and a columnist for First Things. Previously, he served as the op-ed editor of the New York Post, an editor with The Wall Street Journal opinion pages in New York and London, and as a senior writer at Commentary.
Ahmari is the author of The New Philistines (2016), a critique of how identity politics are corrupting the arts; From Fire, by Water (2019), a spiritual memoir about his conversion to Roman Catholicism; The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos (2021) and Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty – and What to Do About It (2023).
He has been criticized by fellow conservatives for receiving funding from Open Society Foundations.